label highlight 14/05 Ideal Recordings

"Our friend and brother in arms Joel Brindefalk passed away in early 2013, 37 years young. He is still here though, and will always be. His art and music will be with us, in our hearts and ears, as well as the memories of our uncompromising, empathic, cynical, stubborn ...
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"On December 14th, 2011 - Mats Gustafsson played an amazing solo concert at our table at Bar Brooklyn in Stockholm. He was supposed to play a "real" concert but bastards didn't care much for that so he ended up playing at the head of our table. Someone spilled a full ...
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"The title says it all. We asked Paal Nilssen-Love to make us a cassette release. He called his pal Lasse Marhaug and his tape deck and he recorded these two pieces over at Paal's place in Oslo. It ended up being simply amazing, deep, raw, and these Ethiopian metals and ...
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"A Different Gesture (Collected Soundtracks 2011-2012)" presents soundtracks to four films by the Swedish visual- and sound artist Nadine Byrne. This album consist of four beautiful, esoteric, ambient pieces composed especially for these films. In 2011, together with ...
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"Composed of field-recordings captured in Thailand, Iceland, and UK. Mastered and cut by Andreas 'Lupo' Lubich at Calyx, Berlin. Marcellvs L. (b.1980) is a renowned Brazilian Video- and Sound-Artist currently living in Berlin and Seydisfjödur, Iceland. His particular ...
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"Altar of Flies is back on iDEAL with this new, untitled album, his first since "Permanent Cavity" (2010). Mattias Gustafsson's industrial, Mjölby-style musique concrčte is deeply personal and even though the music is often sparse and minimal, it always contains ...
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"YEAH: Jim and I worked fast and furiously in Christoph Heemann's studio to record this, working in shifts, day and night, three days later had it all but finished - then Jim said 'Let me do just a couple of tweaks, here and there' and I agreed. Twenty years later, we ...
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""Object Subject To Change" is Henrik Rylander's fourth album for iDEAL but the first since 2009. Rylander is king of hypnotizing, focused feedback drone with razorsharp noise and monotonous pulse. Music that feels as comfortable in academic worlds as in filthy ...
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"Dimitrios K is a legendary techno dj and producer from Gothenburg, Sweden, setting up underground dance parties since the nineties. iDEAL released his untitled debut album last year, filled with his deep techno. Now we are releasing his new LP, based upon a few of ...
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"Kevin Drumm's 2007 cassette "PURGE" on iDEAL went out of stock in less than a week. This is the CD version of that killer thing. Intense listening taking you deep into the known unknown, or perhaps the unknown known. Drumm's noise is extremely powerful and dynamic.; ...
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"All tracks composed at The Castle, 2006, and pre-mastered at La Hacienda, 2008, by Carl Michael von Hausswolff. Recorded at Färgfabriken Center for Contemporary Art and Architecture, Stockholm, Sweden, in connection with the exhibition Matter! by Carl Michael von ...
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"Dave Phillips, based in Zürich and steady collaborator of the Schimpfluch Gruppe, is working with the extreme. This fine piece of vinyl, his first for Joachim Nordwall's iDEAL Recordings label, is a great, odd, harsh and beautiful experience. Humanimalism, ...
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"The size of the stage, position of the equipment, monitor position and height, hall architecture and acoustics, capacity and attendance, temperature and humidity, and sound level (dB) or Leq Meter limiting all varied from event to event. Each of the final recordings ...
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"Sometimes something magic happens. This debut 7" by Nadine Byrne and her The Magic State is exactly that. Something magic. Two deep occult neo hippie pop drone tunes. It's pressed on chilly white vinyl too. Perfect experience for both body and mind. This will be our ...
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"Deep ambient music from visual- and sound artist, poet and science fiction addict Johannes Heldén. His music is slow, melodic, dramatic, dark and atmospheric but yet too damn abstract to even come near being called pop or whatever. Heldén has published a few books, ...
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"Analogue, cosmic filth and synth excellence! POGROM was recorded back in 1990 in the excellent Studio Styrka in Johannishus, Sweden for the classic NYC tape label Sound of Pig but was rejected, forgotten or ignored. Maybe it was never even sent. No one remembers. It ...
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"The soundtrack to if Kenneth Anger had made Wir Kinder von Bahnhof Zoo. Ectoplasm Girls are Tanya & Nadine Byrne from Stockholm, Sweden. Their debut album "TXN" is filled with their unique blend of light, dark, adult, infantile, visible and hidden powers. And it is ...
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"The Existence of Do-Ti-La-So-Fa-Mi-Re-Do Is Everything! presents a work for church organ, recorded in Göteborg and initially played by organist Mikael Wahlin, and thereafter constructed into a 48 minutes long composition by Fröberg." (label info) Accompanying release ...
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"Artist and composer Dan Fröberg is a true original, whether his modes of expression are sound-works, text-works, video-works or other presentations that are of his mind and hands. They all and always connect to the ever-growing labyrinth of clues and secrets and ...
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"Evil Moisture is Andy Bolus, operating from his base in a former mirror factory in north east Paris. "If You Want To Fuck The Sky, Teach Your Cock To Fly" is an old Russian prison saying and very suitable to the sound of this LP. It sounds like it was recorded in a ...
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"Altar of Flies is the new power on the Swedish noise scene, to be put on the underground throne next to Sewer Election. Altar of Flies is Mattias Gustafsson who has recorded stuff since 2006, mainly for his own cassette label Hästen & Korset but also high quality sub ...
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